(Ex) Addict Open Thread
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I quit smoking while in the Corps.
I never quit drinking, but I did quit passing out on fire ant hills, after sneakily poisoning a few hundred of the little devils with tequila.
Mike, if you can make it five days, you can make it ten. And the next five will be easier than the previous five.
Avoid alcohol and the (vile, sinful) places it's served until you're nicotene free for at least a month. And avoid fire ants (and by extension, tequila).
by the time I realized that my left arm was covered with white dots, that they itched, and that the wet, stinking pile of clothes on the deck next to my rack were the ones I'd been wearing when I ran into the pond.
The corpsman wanted to know why I didn't come in sooner. Heh.
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...lots of DC-area establishments ban smoking, although I'd give it a month to establish the new habits.
Tequila, on the other hand: o, thou lover and destroyer, which leads me to fall asleep on Metro trains at 1 in the morning...
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
to get to sleep on a subway. Perhaps we can take up a donation, to provide you with better sleeping quarters.
I guess the Bush Economy isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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The Presidency is a position more easily critiqued than attained.
I'm pretty much a "lead me not to temptation, for I can find it myself" sort anyway, but I've been able to keep most of the pleasurable vices under reasonable control. Never cigarettes; I'm like Mark Twain; quitting is the easiest thing I've ever done, done it thousands of times.
I wish you the best and concur in the advice about "sinful" places, even the ones you can't smoke in, because you know somebody in there has a pack in their pocket and if you just go outside, there'll be smokers, and you can have "just one." Your mind will do that to you.
In Vino Veritas
Mine was "Cigarettes or I say Yes when you ask me. Pick which one you want, dear."
That put a certain perspective on the issue.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
got cancer. She didn't smoke. Rather than thinking that "well, that just shows anybody can get it", I finally understood that adding risk factors is stupid.
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The Presidency is a position more easily critiqued than attained.
I'm starting my 15th month as a non-smoker. Did it with a two-day hospital stint for pneumonia followed by patches. It was, and remains, surprisingly effortless considering the length and severity of my addiction. My employer has a $500.00 incentive for quitting, but this is pre-tax. The IRS got $150.00 because I quit smoking.
On the health side, I haven't had a cold, sinusitis, flu or anything else since, and my at-rest pulse rate went from 100 to 75. And I put on 40 pounds.
Quitting is good.
Although I had weird dreams the entire time. And the aforementioned urge to wrap songbirds up in paper and smoke them.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
But tell us more about these songbirds. Assuming they are literal songbirds, and not, say, the Simpson sisters, questions pop to mind.
Were these Finches? Orioles? Tanagers, Crossbills, or Grossbeaks?
And did you want to smoke them with feathers on or off?
That you can tantalize us without revealing more detail borders on the cruel.
And how did you plan to light them, by beak or by tailfeathers?
And from which end did you want to take your imaginary glorious puffs? I hope I know the answer to that ... and I suppose that helps in guesing the previous answer, as well.
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When I made the relatively mild transition from Pepsi to Caffeine-free Pepsi, I went from 140 lbs to 165.
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I always suspected Neil to be a Pepsi-con! Perhaps we are taking this whole "big-tent" concept a little too far.
for hyphenation. Either you are fer us or agin us.
That said, let us not reject those who drink illicit soft drinks, at least not summarily. I am not one of those who holds that we are born to drink either Coke™ or Pepsi™ -- I believe we can grow, learn, and change.
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High school, junior year, I'd have a cherry coke every morning in second period AP Chemistry.
Good thing I'm not in California schools today, though, or with all the "anti-obesity" stupidity I wouldn't even be able to get THAT from the school machine.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
I quit smoking on July 10 of this year. Cold turkey and haven't had one since and I love(d) cigarettes. I'm not sure how much you smoked but I was at almost 2 packs a day so you can see it can be done. It's hard but you can do it. Don't go back. You'll regret it, especially since you've gone this long. Besides, I will take comfort in the fact that there is another person shAring a similar misery.
you're two puffs away from two packs a day - been there, done that. My record is 19 months, and then I had the "out of body" experience of watching myself just walk in the store and buy a pack of Winstons. It's like the alcoholics say; you never quit, you're just not doing it at this time.
In Vino Veritas
Fire ants.. ouch. I don't want to even imagine the pain in the morning.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. -John Adams